Recently conservative culture warriors Ben Shapiro and Nigel Farage were both delivered a beating by BBC bulldogs Andrew Neil and Andrew Marr. But are televised debates really the best way to combat the alt right? Or are they kinda dumb?
Matt Zarb-Cousin and Max Shanly aka “EuroShanly” Labour’s prospective Lexiteer MEP (if needed) chat about Brexit, booting scabs off select committees and the racism of the British press 🚮 thanks and all the best.
From ‘public’ audiences filled with Tory activists to not even attempting to have political balance on panels – and even getting the most basic of facts wrong, Aaron Bastani thinks the jury is clearly out. The BBC has totally lost it when it comes to news and current affairs.
John McDonnell MP, the Shadow Chancellor, dropped in to the Novara Media studio at The World Transformed to discuss Marx, flak from the press, and drop hints on the identity of the future governor of the Bank of England.
After a week in which Corbyn was branded a fascist and Theresa May a freedom fighter, Michael Walker digs beneath the bullshit of British news.
“The main thing I’ve learned from working in the British media is that much of it is a cult. Afflicted by a suffocating groupthink, intolerant of critics, hounds internal dissenters, full of people who made it because of connections and/or personal background rather than merit.” The above tweet from Owen Jones set off an inferno […]
On this episode of TyskySour Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker talk Cambridge Analytica, hatgate and how the collapse of the centre means a media which increasingly fails to understand what the fuck is going on. @MichaelJSWalker @AaronBastani
It started in the sleepy town of Salisbury, where an ex-Russian spy was poisoned… Join Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani for this latest episode of TyskySour.
